Coupled Blue-Tailed Damselflies

By Dr Ann Mills (Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom)

The blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, has five different female colour forms. The female in the mating pair here is the immature rufescens form, with a salmon-pink thorax and blue tail spot.
Competition: 2014
Insect order: Dragonflies and damselflies